John Jenkins Restless Hearts Liverpool-based UK singer-songwriter John Jenkins most recent musical tome, Restless Hearts, is an emotionally resonant album that blends folk, Americana, and country and explores themes of love, loss, faith, and the fleeting nature of time. A gifted song storyteller, Jenkins lyrically strips his songs down to the bare bones, like Ernest […]
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Jim Reynolds – Bird on a Wire Jim Reynolds’ new album, Bird on a Wire, arrives as a lovingly crafted, deliberately retro-leaning collection shaped by an impressive cast of musicians and studio hands. Produced, engineered, and mastered by Frank Kennedy, whose warm, analogue‑friendly touch defines the record’s sonic character, the album features contributions from Tom […]
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Whenever I hear Neil Young It’s always a country fair after sunset and the lights of rides turning on one-by-one, twinkling in harmony with a watermelon sky spilling sugar- pink into clouds jet, gold, silver-lined. It’s shooting-stars, still hurricane time, approaching autumn, a fork in the road. Couples rise in the sky on […]
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Abigail Lapell Sings Her Way to Motherhood, plus a Rockabilly Anthology Sometimes a whisper can pack more punch than a shout. Witness, for example, the music of Nick Drake—or the similarly understated folk recordings of Abigail Lapell, whose atmospheric work might also occasionally remind you of Pentangle, Fairport Convention, or early Donovan. The Toronto-based singer, […]
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What exactly “authenticity” is, and what role it plays or should play in country and Western music has always been a fiercely-debated topic; almost as fiercely debated as what country music even is by definition.
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Allison Russell has been teasing new music for months now, but finally announced her third solo album: In The Hour of Chaos is finally due out July 10 via Fantasy Records. In typical fashion for her, Russell has brought in as many collaborators as possible to share the spotlight with
Out in the mountains of West Virginia sits Cheat Mountain and the Snowshoe Ski Resort. This picturesque setting in the heart of Appalachia will be the site for the 2026 Ballhooter Festival set to happen on Labor Day Weekend.
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If Ashley isn’t blowing out your speakers with flamethrowing chainsaw guitar, she’s drowning you in a torrential downpour of waterworks with a power ballad. Even the more hushed moments come with intensity.
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Passing on some of his wisdom to the next generation. It’s graduation season, and nothing makes me feel as old as seeing kids who were born when I was in high school graduating from college. It takes me back to my own college graduation and that sense of excitement that I felt when it was finally time to go out into the world and chase my own dreams. (Turns out my dreams led me to go back to school and […]
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